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[Stenten <stenten@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did you see any errors when you booted without "quiet splash"?

Sounds like a problem with gdm, not xorg, from what you're saying (since "startx" works but "sudo service gdm start" doesn't). A few more things just to make sure:
1) Replace "quiet splash" with "nomodeset".
2) Replace "quiet splash" with "xforcevesa".

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[i945] intel gma 82945G xorg does not work at boot
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